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A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep, careless, reckless, and fearless of what's past, present, or to come; insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Provost, in Measure for Measure, act 4, sc. 2, l. 142-5.
On Barnadine, long since sentenced to die, and who has no fear of death, and no hope of escaping it ("desperately mortal").
On Barnadine, long since sentenced to die, and who has no fear of death, and no hope of escaping it ("desperately mortal").
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